Some of those are valid criticisms... I'm strongly in favor of advanced classes and tracking, restoring ability to discipline disruptive students, and objective merit based admissions/hiring (though let's be real here, Republicans want to go back to bias in favor of white people, not create an actual level playing field).
But a handful of cherry picked examples doesn't erase the fact that as bad as those things are, they don't hold a candle to the damage inflicted by relentless attacks on education by conservatives.

This is an example of the misinformation around it. There are resellers who are legally allowed to sell it. Yes, it's quite a pain compared to consumer editions to go through the fully authorized method instead of gray market or piracy, but better than being stuck with 11.

Certainly not, because who cares when they're just eating breakfast and getting ready for and going to work/school? Compared to the evenings when an extra hour of light is nice when you want to actually do something. Like outdoor activities where you'll get exercise.

How do you figure that? They're forcing all sorts of non-humanlike responses to avoid offending anyone.

Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC is far superior to the consumer versions and has mainstream, non-ESU support all the way til 2032. For the people who say compatibility, well it's highly specific to some particular software and there's far, far more programs that have compatibility issues with 11 than programs that work on 10 home/pro but not enterprise ltsc. You can install missing bloat like the MS Store if you really want to. Even here on /. people post false info about 10 LTSC making it out to be worse than it is.

Security is at best the secondary purpose behind DRM. Also you can bypass the requirement and Windows will still work.

You're right about gun possession since it's federal but voting rights are controlled by state of residence. Most states allow felons to vote, and if you move to one from a state where you can't, a previous conviction doesn't mean you still can't vote. Provided you've changed your registration and aren't trying to absentee vote in your old state.

I've tried this so many times. Never works. It's actually easier at first... The first few weeks the artificial sweetener drinks taste good. But as time goes on they just start tasting worse and worse, even if I change up flavors and brands. I start getting dehydrated as drinking becomes an exercise in forcing something unpleasant down. Not all sugary drinks have the same amount per oz so I do at least stick to drinks with around half the sugar as others.

Considering we can't even reconcile QM and relativity well enough to conclusively rule out the solutions to effective FTL we already theorize about, I find it the height of arrogance to presume we can dictate with any certainty that even given a billion years technological advancement beyond our current point, no possible means of manipulating spacetime for it can be achieved. Anyone who conclusively says it's impossible is engaging in religion, not science.

Most people consider this bullshit because in practice, the spirit of it is cheated by e.g. saying everyone with an 1100 SAT is "qualified" for the most elite colleges so then they can go ahead take whatever balance they want and it's not discrimination if one ethnicity has 400 points higher on average in the admitted class . You can't just set "qualified" to a level where you don't actually accept candidates at the minimum unless they're a certain race then claim it's race neutral. It's a lie. As a liberal I'm continually baffled how this is so widely accepted... Progressives will usually drop the mask and straight up say "the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination", as Kendi says.

NT4, 2000, and XP/Server2003 sources are out there. What is desperately needed is Win7, and more related to this article, VB6. Those would provide actual benefits beyond hobbyist curiosity for retrocomputing even though they're long out of date. But greedy MS can't even do that. They're still the enemies of open source they've always been... just giving people some little scraps to pretend they're not.

I use the only legacy VB forum left. These bots knocked it out again just yesterday. There will be under 10 logged in users but consistently over 30,000 mostly bot viewers. Constantly for many months now. Vbulletin sites are extremely difficult to crawl properly; I've tried to make a backup but even the fancy commercial tools I can't figure out how to not wind up with essentially an infinite loop where if I let it run it would duplicate everything 1000 times over.
Server problems happen all the time from these abusive crawlers, less frequently after some Cloudflare and increased CAPTCHAs, but still every week or two, because it's a small site with few resources but a ton of programming info going back over 20y.

Actually the broken windows theory where going hard after petty crimes prevents more serious crimes is quite thoroughly debunked. The studies in its favor ignoring that crime dropped similarly everywhere regardless of whether a city was doing it. But you don't care, do you? It couldn't be more clear most pro-"tough on crime" don't give a single solitary fuck about crime rates. Your main goal is paying more money than housing would cost to jail undesirables. When that itself is the actual goal rather than lowering crime, broken windows starts to make a lot more sense.

These don't appear to be under the DMCA at all, as YouTube goes way, way beyond the legal minimum to favor large copyright holders with their own system ever since the meritless legal claims that they were required to.

Taco Bell here they tell you to use the kiosk even if you stand at the register and even if you tell them you're paying cash so they'll have to use the register anyway. It's really stupid. The kiosk is still very slow even entering a regular order you've memorized the sequence for. 1-2min vs less than 10s for an employee.